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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4
System Settings
System Accounting with auditd
Extend Audit Backlog Limit for the Audit Daemon
Extend Audit Backlog Limit for the Audit Daemon
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Extend Audit Backlog Limit for the Audit Daemon
Medium Severity
To improve the kernel capacity to queue all log events, even those which occurred prior to the audit daemon, add the argument
audit_backlog_limit=8192
to all BLS (Boot Loader Specification) entries ('options' line) for the Linux operating system in
/boot/loader/entries/*.conf
.